A group of 250 neighbors and business owners in central Berkeley filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday seeking to block construction of a four-story building at 2517 Sacramento St. that would include a mix of commercial space and affordable housing for seniors.
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It is a summer camp for 2002. Sure, there’s capture the flag and frisbee, but the kids at Cybercamps on the UC Berkeley campus also spend five hours a day in a computer lab, studying 3-D Animation, web design and robotics.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Talk show host Jerry Springer was sued Wednesday by the son of a former guest, killed by her ex-husband hours after the airing of an episode the couple had appeared on involving love triangles.
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With temperatures soaring around the Bay Area, local senior centers and extended care facilities have taken extra steps to stay safe and beat the heat. While there have been no emergencies involving heat stroke or dehydration at any of the Berkeley senior centers, supervisors are taking precautions.
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RODEO — Residents near the Phillips Petroleum Co. refinery were ordered to stay in their homes for about an hour and a half Wednesday afternoon after black smoke began billowing from the facility.
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WASHINGTON — The world’s most popular software for scrambling sensitive e-mails suffers from a programming flaw that could allow hackers to attack a user’s computer and, in some circumstances, unscramble messages.
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SANTA ANA — The U.S. government urged a California appeals court Wednesday to throw out slave labor lawsuits brought by World War II prisoners of war against Japanese companies, arguing a state law that allows such action is unconstitutional.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Chemicals that are feared to cause birth defects have been found in toiletry products ranging from hairspray to deodorant, the same substances that also have been discovered in high concentrations among women of childbearing age, an environmental group reports.
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SAN JOSE — It was one of the most infamous crimes in California history: Three women disappeared while visiting Yosemite National Park and were savagely killed by the handyman at their motel. Caught months later after beheading a nature guide, Cary Stayner gave the FBI a detailed confession to all four murders.
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